Okay, good evening everybody and welcome back to beautiful Jogjakarta
Today I'm leaving the city and I'm heading on an overnight train to Malang
I've heard some incredible things about this area of Indonesia and I can't wait to explore
I booked executive class which I haven't tried yet before here in Indonesia
I've tried the economy, the business and now executive is one of the higher classes
So hopefully it'll be very comfortable. It's about six hours, six and a half hours to Malang
It's currently 11.30pm My train leaves at 12.30pm So I have an hour to hopefully
Inshallah grab some food I have to get my ticket sorted because I booked online
So you have to get it printed out while you're here And even get the train to Milan
I can't wait Okay, good morning everybody
It's 6.40 in the morning and I've just arrived here in Malang
I'm so happy to be here. The views coming here were incredible
Let's head into the city to my hostel. Good morning, everybody
Salam al pagi from my second day here in Milan. Today is a very exciting day because I've rented a motorbike for two days
and I'm going to be heading on an incredible road trip to some of the most famous waterfalls here in this part of Indonesia and also
to Mount Bromo tomorrow morning so we're into the scooter should just be up this
road let's begin this incredible journey Yes! Hello! How can you do
Can you do this photo? Yes, please. This photo is a photo
You guys, this road is stunning. It's more of a local back road towards the waterfall, but it is beautiful
Covered in farms. There's a huge river just to my left. It is stunning
Guys, I just had to pull over. 30 minutes away but this view has just taken my breath away. You have all of the rice fields
and then you have Mount Sumerra here in the back which is towards my destination. It's a huge active
volcano here in the region and I'm just heading to Burima which is around this region too so
wow what a stunning landscape. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen in my entire life
and I can't believe I'm here this is incredible. Hello. Hello
One Yes Ticket 20 Okay I just arrived inside The ticket 20 000 rupees to enter which is actually not so bad that about one pound about one dollar thirty i think it a little bit of a short walk
to see the waterfalls and i can't wait i've heard it's one of the most spectacular waterfalls
not only in indonesia but in the whole world so let's go
Okay, I just arrived at one of the viewpoints
Okay. Wow. Oh my gosh. This is incredible. Take a look at this
All I need from you to me All my mountains and seas
All I need from you to me and there you have it behind me the Tempak Seru waterfalls loosely translated in Javanese
to a thousand waterfalls the Glildic river runs past the huge volcanoes behind me and
they all meet for these waterfalls they are just spectacular I've seen images like this
all over Instagram and honestly I thought they were photoshopped because usually you can see Mount Semeru in the background but it's just got a little bit too cloudy I've got here a
little bit too late probably about one hour too late good this is stunning and well worth the drive
coming here it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen so Mount Semeru is one of the most
active volcanoes here in Indonesia if not the most active so as you leave the waterfalls there's an
evacuation route started raining really hard and I don't have any water proof so
So at the end of last year there was a huge pyroclastic flow which came from the volcano
eruption and i didn't realize i was going to be driving through
i didn't realize i was going to be driving through one of the villages that it was affected by
you can see the ash it's so high and this is what's left of the houses here
i'm now thinking that's that might be why the bridge i just drove over was destroyed
I guess it from the eruption that happened I think six months ago
okay i'm about 10 minutes away from my home stay it should just be up here
the volcano behind me that is mount somero i think i'm not 100 sure but it really smells of sulfur
i'll be wearing my mask the whole time anyway but you really need it here oof
smells really bad and by the look of it there's been a pyroplastic flow which has come down and
i think this is why there's so much sand here i've been driving in the sand for about 30 minutes
the sun is almost set i need to hurry up and i'm really happy i left the time i left um because
it's taken me a long time to get here especially with the rain uh but so far it's been amazing and
landscape is worth it so i will check in at the guest house there are eruptions happening right
now as i speak this is crazy okay this is the guest house i'm staying in
i'm staying in a place called romo otics i think the name is it's about 10 pounds for this room
which is pretty nice pretty good uh very basic of course we're in a mountain resort we're in
the middle of east java at a volcano so i can't expect too much and honestly i don't need too much
I'm so tired. It's been a crazy day, an amazing day. I need to wake up at three to start hiking at four
I think, because sunrise is 5.30. So I'm going to get a good rest
and I will see you tomorrow morning for sunrise at Mount Bromo. Okay, so I've just arrived at Suruni Point
where I parked my bike It 5 baht I just picked up a coffee and now it about a 30 minute walk to king kong viewpoint it about 4 30 now so i have an hour and 10 minutes until sunrise so i left just
some good time i did crash my bike a little bit on the way up one of the wing mirrors has fallen
off so i have to fix that later the roads coming up here are pretty are really actually very bad
probably one of the worst roads i've driven up so if you're going to drive up here just be very
careful and drive as carefully as you can you can't drive slow because it's very it's pretty
much vertical coming up so you have to have some good speed but it's very windy and very bumpy
the boulders are huge so i actually recommend you getting a jeep to come up here and just leaving
your bike in the city before you come up here and just paying the extra charge because now i have to
pay for getting the wing mirrors fixed which might be cheap i'm going to find somewhere later
i'll figure that out later so let's start hiking and i'll see you at the top
all right you guys after about 30 minutes of hiking out of the incredible valley i've arrived
here at the viewpoint and so has everybody else who came in the jeeps i was the only person walking
up the hill but I definitely preferred that so much more fulfilling it's so beautiful take a look at this
the sun has just come over the horizon and you can see the volcanoes in the background
mount samara is erupting roughly every 10 to 15 minutes so i think i've just got a good
time lapse to show you how much is erupting it's pretty amazing everyone's in such good
spirits here even though it's so busy it's not cold the weather is perfect and
very very blessed to be here it's sublime okay so i'm just hiking back down now what a beautiful sunrise it was amazing i loved every
second of it also if you're coming to do this hike which i highly recommend you don't actually
need to buy the entrance ticket so if you're going to come and do this hike don't pay for it
because I spent 220,000 this morning when I didn't have to but it's well worth coming to I
loved it so much just pick up some tea or coffee or some snacks from the locals to support them
and come and enjoy this epic sunrise well one of my favorite things I've actually ever done
anywhere in the world it's amazing